{"id":2044,"date":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2012\/01\/12\/do-we-have-the-right-to-bear-a-genetically-related-child-a-study-into-in-vitro-fertilisation-and-its-moral-implications\/"},"modified":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"do-we-have-the-right-to-bear-a-genetically-related-child-a-study-into-in-vitro-fertilisation-and-its-moral-implications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2012\/01\/12\/do-we-have-the-right-to-bear-a-genetically-related-child-a-study-into-in-vitro-fertilisation-and-its-moral-implications\/","title":{"rendered":"Do We Have the Right to Bear a Genetically Related Child? A Study into in vitro Fertilisation and its Moral Implications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my project this year I examined in vitro fertilisation which is a procedure invented in 1976 for infertile couples which involves removing the woman\u2019s eggs and fertilising them outside the body with the sperm of her husband or a donor. This often results in spare embryos being formed, which is a subject which divides England.  <\/p>\n<p>I looked at the status of the embryo and argued that it had no raised status to an egg or a sperm based on the philosophical arguments of ethicist Peter Singer.  <\/p>\n<p>I also looked at the work of Martha Nussbaum who is a modern contemporary thinker and has strong opinions regarding bodily health and bodily integrity. <\/p>\n<p>The main thread of my argument was that we have a right to a genetically related child and these two thinkers helped me prove this. <\/p>\n<p>Books and websites I used included<br \/>\nNussbaum, M. (2011) Creating Capabilities: The Human Development Approach. Harvard University Press, USA<br \/>\nSinger, P. (2002) Unsanctifying Human Life. Blackwell Publishing Company, Oxford<br \/>\nSinger, P. (1998) A Companion to Bioethics. Blackwell Publishing Company, Oxford<br \/>\nSmith, R. (2012) Statistics Explained. Westminster, London.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Kilpatrick, 2012, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,22,123],"tags":[375,606,433],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-592","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-nussbaum","tag-reproduction","tag-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}